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Fact Sheets

Fact Sheets

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Fact Sheets
June 2007

How Changes to Family Immigration Could Affect Source Countries' Sending Patterns

This fact sheet examines proposed changes to the United States’ family based immigration system under The Secure Borders, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Reform Act of 2007.

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Fact Sheets
May 2007

Annual Immigration to the United States: The Real Numbers

While official measures of annual permanent immigration levels simply account for those who obtain lawful permanent resident status in a particular year, this report offers a more complex approximation by including estimates of certain forms of temporary immigration and unauthorized immigration in the calculus.

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Fact Sheets
February 2007

Immigration Fee Increases in Context

This fact sheet briefly summarizes the background and implications of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services’ proposal to increase immigration fees during the summer of 2007.

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Fact Sheets
November 2006

Mexican-Born Persons in the U.S. Civilian Labor Force

This fact sheet examines demographic and labor market characteristics of Mexican-born workers in the United States and compares them to those of all foreign-born as well as native-born U.S. workers. The report focuses on workers age 16 and over who participated in the U.S. civilian labor force in 2006.

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Fact Sheets
October 2006

Legal Immigration to United States Increased Substantially in FY 2005

This report provides an overview of immigration to the United States based on Fiscal Year 2005 data released by the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Immigration Statistics in 2006.

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Fact Sheets
November 2005

Legal Immigration to United States Up from Last Year

This fact sheet is an overview of U.S. immigration based on Fiscal Year 2004 data released by the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Immigration Statistics in 2005.

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Fact Sheets
November 2005

Immigration Enforcement Spending Since IRCA

This report closely examines the rapid growth of government appropriations directly targeted to immigration enforcement activities since the passage of the Immigration Control and Reform Act of 1986 (IRCA). Focusing primarily on data between 1985 and 2002, authors highlight trends in the overall immigration enforcement spending as well as in specific activities.

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Fact Sheets
October 2005

United States-Canada-Mexico Fact Sheet on Trade and Migration

This report examines the trilateral relationship between the United States, Canada, and Mexico in the decade since the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and provides facts and figures relating to trade and migration among the three countries.

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Fact Sheets
June 2005

Backlogs in Immigration Processing Persist

This report examines the scope and extent of the United States immigration system’s chronic backlog problem by offering insight into factors that contribute to protracted processing delays for naturalization and permanent residency applications before highlighting the steps the government has taken to address the issue.

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Fact Sheets
October 2004

Legal Immigration to U.S. Still Declining

This fact sheet is an overview of U.S. immigration based on Fiscal Year 2003 data from the 2003 Yearbook of Immigration Statistics, which was released in mid-September 2004 by the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Immigration Statistics.

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